changing plans

We talked about going to Tortola, the closest British Virgin Island, last week, but we thought about it a little too late and didn't think we'd make the ferry on time. Thursday night we came up with the idea of going to Virgin Gorda for the weekend. Virgin Gorda is one of the furthest islands of the BVI and has the famous "baths" to swim in and around (pictured here). Dave even found a place for us to stay Saturday night for $75 - nice hotels are cheaper for VI residents, especially during the summer! But it just isn't so easy to get to Virgin Gorda. I had to get an allergy shot this morning, so we had to scrap the plan because we might not have made the ferry, and even if we did, it had 3 stops along the way with an hour of waiting on Tortola for more passengers. So we decided to postpone that trip for another weekend, when we have more time to make plans.


This morning we thought we'd make plans for Tortola for the weekend, since we came up with the idea 3 hours before the ferry this time. Unfortunately, we can only find one place to stay and its on the side of the island furthest from everything we want to go to. All the other hotels are either closed for the summer or we can't get through because they don't have a US number (that we can readily find) and our cellphones aren't wanting to connect to the BVI right now. *sigh*

Not to fear, we still have plenty to do for the weekend anyway. I had another busy week at work, 11 hour days every day, so I'm happy to get some relaxing in. Unfortunately, the a/c in the car is acting up, so my usual plan of driving around on the weekend to cool off isn't going to work this weekend. I'll have to learn to cope like Dave does every day, until we can figure out the problem and get it fixed.

So the plan for the weekend now is to work on the curtains a bit, nap, and watch a movie we got from NetFlix - we signed up for the free trial last week. It took 8 days for our first dvd to show up. And of course, swim, swim, swim. We're quasi-in-training for the St Croix Coral Reef Swim. I say "quasi" because we haven't really committed to it yet. We're not sure if we're crazy enough. It's a five-mile swim - about two miles from Buck island to St Croix, then about three miles along St Croix's coast. The race is at the end of October and we haven't really trained much. But they do have a Fins division. I'm just not a fan of fins because it makes it a bit more difficult to swim different strokes along the way. Another obstacle is that Dave is a faster swimmer than me, but I think it'd be more fun if we were together. I just want to do the race to do it. The trick is, you're supposedly only given 4 hours for the race and then they pull you out. Someone high up at work, though, told me that he is usually one of the kayakers in the water accompanying the swimmers and that after 4 hours passes, if the swimmers want to continue and the kayakers think they can do it, then they get to finish. So one person took 6 hours once. eek. Talk about sunburn!! If we don't do it this year (we have another week or so to decide) then I definitely want to do it next year.

Well, my computer is making the room a degree or so warmer than it would be otherwise, and it is getting toasty. so it's time for kendra to rest by a fan or two.
By the way, for most of the pictures we upload, you can click on one and it will get bigger.